Serena: A Novel (P.S.)
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">A </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><em>New York Times</em></span><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> </span></strong><strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Serena </i>by award-winning author Ron Rash is</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> “</span></strong><strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">masterfully written…</span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">sprawling, engrossing and—from time to time—nightmarish,†(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">San Francisco Chronicle</i>); a remarkable novel that “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy,†(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The New Yorker</i>). Rash’s chilling <span style="COLOR: black">gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America’s burgeoning environmental movement was named a Best Book of the Year by more than a dozen national publications, including the <em>New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, </em><em><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">and </span>Miami Herald. Serena </em><em><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">is brilliant contemporary fiction that exquisitely balances beauty and violence, passion and rage, cruelty and love.</span></em></span></span>